A new Marquette Law School Poll national survey finds approval of the U.S. Supreme Court has fallen to 38%, while 61% disapprove of how the Court is handling its job. In May, 44% approved and 55% disapproved, and in March, 54% approved and 45% disapproved. … Over the past three […] Read more »
Which Elected Leaders Should Do More on Climate? Here’s What Americans Say.
It’ll take some time to understand how Americans view last week’s collapse of climate legislation in Congress, but previous data holds some clues. When asked which elected officials should do more on climate, Americans point to Congress, according to recent surveys by the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication. … […] Read more »
How ‘Stop the Steal’ Captured the American Right
… Trump had jolted American politics, probably irrevocably, by urging his supporters to see themselves as an American people distinct from the American population — a people whose particular loyalties, identities and values designated them as the nation’s true inheritors, regardless of what the ballots might have said. If this […] Read more »
Most Americans agree we will never fully be rid of COVID-19
According to the latest wave of the Axios/Ipsos Coronavirus Index, about a third of Americans report knowing someone who has been reinfected with COVID-19 in the last few weeks. Among Americans who have had or suspect they have had COVID-19 at any point since the pandemic began, more than a […] Read more »
The polls you should ignore
Some pollsters barely wait until the ink on the ballots is dry in one election before they begin horse-race polling for the next election. Most wait a little longer, but here we are, in mid-2022, starting to see more and more 2024 primary polls. To be clear, I am referring […] Read more »
The Supreme Court is Now Operating Outside of American Public Opinion
For more than a decade, decisions handed down by the U.S. Supreme Court were largely in step with American public opinion on major policy issues, even as the Court’s makeup grew more conservative. Abruptly, that is no longer the case. The Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson has garnered all […] Read more »